“Guaranteed price [offered by UK to French state company EDF] is over 7x the unsubsidised price of new wind in the US, 4 or 5 times unsubsidised price of new solar power in the US. Nuclear prices only go up. Renewable energy prices come down. There is absolutely no business case for nuclear…(China) appears to have added 12GW of photovoltaics in 2012 – that’s more than the total that have been installed in the US.”

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